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ambient robot
Apr 23, 2014

by Lowtax

Jel Shaker posted:

why can she not divorce him? I can't see why its in her interest to associate with him and she can still trade off his trump name

They were going to once he lost the election. Unfortunately for everyone involved, he won. In the interest of saving face/keeping the Trump brand strong she agreed to keep up appearances while hes in office. Of course, this works out well for her since they apparently already have a signed agreement that she gets to live in his house and gently caress his buddies all she wants lmao

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Shadow0
Jun 16, 2008


If to live in this style is to be eccentric, it must be confessed that there is something good in eccentricity.

Grimey Drawer
Watched a like 10 second clip where Hillary got asked if she would run in 2020 and she said "Nah".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxfPQGXFFC4

So I went to go look if there were any articles about it to post here and I found this:
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/10/12/hillary-clinton-says-she-wont-run-for-president-again/

Then I looked at the date. :(

Owlbear Camus
Jan 3, 2013

Maybe this guy that flies is just sort of passing through, you know?



Shadow0 posted:

Watched a like 10 second clip where Hillary got asked if she would run in 2020 and she said "Nah".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxfPQGXFFC4

So I went to go look if there were any articles about it to post here and I found this:
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/10/12/hillary-clinton-says-she-wont-run-for-president-again/

Then I looked at the date. :(

lol life comes at you fast.

proof of concept
Mar 6, 2005

by FactsAreUseless

BRISTOL PALINS BABY posted:

who honestly believes she is still taking that fetid orange dick

I wouldn't be surprised if he coerces her into bed from time to time, considering his complete inability to deal with rejection

Random Stranger
Nov 27, 2009



Jel Shaker posted:

why can she not divorce him? I can't see why its in her interest to associate with him and she can still trade off his trump name

The serious answer, and the one that most people who thought about it for more than a couple of seconds thought, is :20bux: .

my new dog
May 7, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo

lol

Total Party Kill
Aug 25, 2005

plain blue jacket posted:

A divorce won't play well with his voting base

better not tell them about the previous ones :ssh:

red19fire
May 26, 2010

plain blue jacket posted:

A divorce won't play well with his voting base

his previous two didn't?

E: :argh:

Egbert Souse posted:

I'm sure the coal miners will be subject to thorough safety and environmental regulations, as well as be supplemented with generous healthcare policies

This is the infuriating part for me. Who the gently caress is clamoring for these underpaid jobs digging in a hole a half mile underground, giving themselves lung cancer? it's a dying industry that needs to be put in the ground once and for all, but they still have enough juice to buy enough congressmen to limp along.

BRISTOL PALINS BABY posted:

who honestly believes she is still taking that fetid orange dick

I vaguely remember him on Stern years ago when viagra first appeared, raving that it allowed him to 'gently caress like i'm 25 again' so i guess sitting in a bean bag chair getting peed on by prostitutes has always been his thing?

red19fire fucked around with this message at 20:32 on Jun 2, 2017

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
well, obviously solar isn't gonna work if santorum gets his way and we get 1000 years of darkness

Random Stranger
Nov 27, 2009



red19fire posted:

This is the infuriating part for me. Who the gently caress is clamoring for these underpaid jobs digging in a hole a half mile underground, giving themselves lung cancer?

The people who used to have those jobs before automation and efficiency made them go away, but still drink themselves to death lamenting how coal mining is the only honest work in America?

Owlbear Camus
Jan 3, 2013

Maybe this guy that flies is just sort of passing through, you know?



That's a weird thing to call it when they said she was staying in NYC for the sake of Barron's school.

"Oh you big hunky older Bruce-Willis-Looking jewelry-protecting man, take me to Barron's school! TAKE ME TO BARRON'S SCHOOL YES!"

ncumbered_by_idgits
Sep 20, 2008

There is no amount of money that would be considered too much if she said "give me $X or I'm out." At least not while he's in office.

Owlbear Camus
Jan 3, 2013

Maybe this guy that flies is just sort of passing through, you know?



BRISTOL PALINS BABY posted:

better not tell them about the previous ones :ssh:

I don't know if a sitting president has ever gone through a divorce, especially recently, but I mean regardless of the pres it would be a ridiculous zoo if it happened while in office.

red19fire
May 26, 2010

Pac-Manioc Root posted:

That's a weird thing to call it when they said she was staying in NYC for the sake of Barron's school.

"Oh you big hunky older Bruce-Willis-Looking jewelry-protecting man, take me to Barron's school! TAKE ME TO BARRON'S SCHOOL YES!"

"no, make him watch. Let him see what a real, powerful, bigly man looks like'

Shadow0
Jun 16, 2008


If to live in this style is to be eccentric, it must be confessed that there is something good in eccentricity.

Grimey Drawer

red19fire posted:

This is the infuriating part for me. Who the gently caress is clamoring for these underpaid jobs digging in a hole a half mile underground, giving themselves lung cancer?

All the newly unemployed government scientists and engineers.

*Cuts 1000s of highly skilled jobs to create 70 unskilled jobs*
Great Again!

Good luck on those college loans, stupid. You should have become an honorary doctor of mining instead.
CLEAN COAL!

Total Party Kill
Aug 25, 2005

i come from a huge evangelical family. my father has been divorced three times. my mother is on her third marriage. my mom married the divorce attorney that divorced my parents. my grandparents on both sides have been divorced at least once and their current partners come from previous marriages. honestly a divorce might help him relate to evangelicals.

red19fire
May 26, 2010

Random Stranger posted:

The people who used to have those jobs before automation and efficiency made them go away, but still drink themselves to death lamenting how coal mining is the only honest work in America?

yeah, that's whats so ridiculous. Hillary *probably* could have swung coal miners to her side if she had boiled down retraining for green jobs into a better message. Instead she said 'i don't give a gently caress about coal miners'

old beast lunatic
Nov 3, 2004

by Hand Knit
Hillary is a lovely candidate and annoying as gently caress but her campaign message of "Don't vote for that loving retard, Jesus Christ what is wrong with you." really connected with me.

StupidSexyVaultGuy
Jul 26, 2003



Santorum must've just watched the Matrix and turned it off in terror after Morpheus talked about "scorching the sky" thinking it was a prophecy.

Owlbear Camus
Jan 3, 2013

Maybe this guy that flies is just sort of passing through, you know?



red19fire posted:

yeah, that's whats so ridiculous. Hillary *probably* could have swung coal miners to her side if she had boiled down retraining for green jobs into a better message. Instead she said 'i don't give a gently caress about coal miners'

It was amazingly flip and she was basically terrible at messaging everything, even her "good" policies.

That and the fact that Obama's economic gains didn't really help ease the economic anxieties of the working class and she was blithely promising more of the same orderly decline into desperation didn't help.

Then she lost to Donald My Wife's Boyfriend Guards The Jewels Trump.

Shadow0
Jun 16, 2008


If to live in this style is to be eccentric, it must be confessed that there is something good in eccentricity.

Grimey Drawer

BRISTOL PALINS BABY posted:

i come from a huge evangelical family. my father has been divorced three times. my mother is on her third marriage. my mom married the divorce attorney that divorced my parents. my grandparents on both sides have been divorced at least once and their current partners come from previous marriages. honestly a divorce might help him relate to evangelicals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YFLBjR-swo&t=104s

i like that
May 22, 2016

by FactsAreUseless

Jel Shaker posted:

why can she not divorce him? I can't see why its in her interest to associate with him and she can still trade off his trump name

You have limited options when cornered by a more powerful malignant narcissist personality.

Total Party Kill
Aug 25, 2005


this is exactly like talking to the fam

tpink
Feb 18, 2013

Melman
This is not exactly a hmbol but a savage and well-written takedown nonetheless:

http://lithub.com/rebecca-solnit-the-loneliness-of-donald-trump/

(Better title obviously would have been "The LOL-ness of Donald Trump.")

quote:

A true tyrant does not depend on cooperative power but has a true power of command, enforced by thugs, goons, Stasi, the SS, or death squads. A true tyrant has subordinated the system of government and made it loyal to himself rather than to the system of laws or the ideals of the country. This would-be tyrant didn’t understand that he was in a system where many in government, perhaps most beyond the members of his party in the legislative branch, were loyal to law and principle and not to him. His minion announced the president would not be questioned, and we laughed. He called in, like courtiers, the heads of the FBI, of the NSA, and the director of national intelligence to tell them to suppress evidence, to stop investigations and found that their loyalty was not to him. He found out to his chagrin that we were still something of a democracy, and that the free press could not be so easily stopped, and the public itself refused to be cowed and mocks him earnestly at every turn.

Flesh Forge
Jan 31, 2011

LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DOG

Feminasty Slut posted:

Hillary is a lovely candidate and annoying as gently caress but her campaign message of "Don't vote for that loving retard, Jesus Christ what is wrong with you." really connected with me.

I'm 47 and that was my voting cherry, and that reason was plenty good for me :shrug:

Anybody who didn't vote is a dumb motherfucker, and if you stay home next time well your a SUPER dumb motherfucker

plain blue jacket
Jan 13, 2014

IT DOESN'T STOP
IT NEVER STOPS

BRISTOL PALINS BABY posted:

better not tell them about the previous ones :ssh:

I mean one during his presidency

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007

red19fire posted:

yeah, that's whats so ridiculous. Hillary *probably* could have swung coal miners to her side if she had boiled down retraining for green jobs into a better message. Instead she said 'i don't give a gently caress about coal miners'

see, that's a very understandable position to take but her mistake was admitting to it. no one gives a gently caress about coal miners, but people love finding stuff to be outraged about.

Kumo
Jul 31, 2004

as a lol miner, the truest american heros, i

turn off the TV
Aug 4, 2010

moderately annoying

Lol I'm at a point in my life where when I'm in a bad mood I hope that the president of the united states of america does something insanely stupid so I can laugh at him and feel better about myself.

Dial-a-Dog
May 22, 2001

tpink posted:

This is not exactly a hmbol but a savage and well-written takedown nonetheless:

http://lithub.com/rebecca-solnit-the-loneliness-of-donald-trump/

(Better title obviously would have been "The LOL-ness of Donald Trump.")

quote:

...the public itself refused to be cowed and mocks him earnestly at every turn.

Like ~40+% still approve of him, with probably a lower limit at 30% where those people quietly believe he has the mandate of heaven and won't ever think he's garbage

edit: the earlier part of the line "still something of a democracy" is pretty close to right though

I Was The Fury
Oct 19, 2012

Always stop to smell the flowers, just in case they're weeds

Kumo posted:

as a lol miner, the truest american heros, i

We

nooneofconsequence
Oct 30, 2012

she had tiny Italian boobs.
Well that's my story.

Pac-Manioc Root posted:

It was amazingly flip and she was basically terrible at messaging everything, even her "good" policies.

That and the fact that Obama's economic gains didn't really help ease the economic anxieties of the working class and she was blithely promising more of the same orderly decline into desperation didn't help.

Then she lost to Donald My Wife's Boyfriend Guards The Jewels Trump.

"economic anxiety"

Avirosb
Nov 21, 2016

Everyone makes pisstakes
Envir-lol-mental

Owlbear Camus
Jan 3, 2013

Maybe this guy that flies is just sort of passing through, you know?



nooneofconsequence posted:

"economic anxiety"

yeah you caught me buzzwording my dude, a fair cop

howabout "being dead goddamn broke because there is no more industry and the social safety net is a joke and the whole system is broken and everything sucks?"

hail orb

and hail handsome and virile jewelry security man

turn off the TV
Aug 4, 2010

moderately annoying

Pac-Manioc Root posted:

It was amazingly flip and she was basically terrible at messaging everything, even her "good" policies.

That and the fact that Obama's economic gains didn't really help ease the economic anxieties of the working class and she was blithely promising more of the same orderly decline into desperation didn't help.

Then she lost to Donald My Wife's Boyfriend Guards The Jewels Trump.

I'm still seeing occasional think pieces from Clinton and DNC staffers talking about how they need a more centrist candidate for 2020. Got to target those Romney voters!

SniperWoreConverse
Mar 20, 2010



Gun Saliva

Under the evil power of Deadly Orb, the kingdom has been shrouded in eternal darkness. The weak anemic winds bring only despair and pestilence. The people need a hero. Will you take up your ancestor's sword, overthrow the Mad King Dolan J'Tamp, and finally shatter the Deadly Orb? Rated T for Teen.

Tumble
Jun 24, 2003
I'm not thinking of anything!

BRISTOL PALINS BABY posted:

this is exactly like talking to the fam

the best is when you get a skilled laborer like a carpenter or plumber who refuses to admit that Trump stiffed hundreds of people throughout the years.

"So, Donald Trump never ripped off laborers"
"Nope."
*presents mountain of evidence; interviews, court documents, etc etc*
"That's all a lie."

middle-class republicans have the craziest amount of cognitive dissonance; you can go through a checklist of things they individually believe and they will share a ton of opinions with democrats - they believe that education shouldn't be $100k worth of debt burden, they believe that people shouldn't be bankrupted by a heart attack, they believe that people with pre-existing conditions should have access to healthcare, they believe that the lower and middle classes should get more tax breaks than rich people.

but as soon as you attach those values to a democrat they're all "Uhhh I am not going to vote for a loving liberal" and they're back to voting for assholes again.

Bernie was winning them over :(

Jesus Christ
Jun 1, 2000

mods if you can make this my avatar I will gladly pay 10bux to the coffers

santorum: The sometimes frothy, usually slimy, amalgam of lubricant, stray fecal matter, and ejaculate that leaks out of the receiving partner's anus after a session of anal intercourse.

Owlbear Camus
Jan 3, 2013

Maybe this guy that flies is just sort of passing through, you know?



Tumble posted:

Bernie was winning them over :(

Bernie would have won, and Jane would have lived in the White House with him, and held his hand and poo poo.

:smith: :respek: :smith:

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turn off the TV
Aug 4, 2010

moderately annoying

Pac-Manioc Root posted:

Bernie would have won, and Jane would have lived in the White House with him, and held his hand and poo poo.

:smith: :respek: :smith:

Lol I remember talking to my old HS teacher at our caucus about how I thought that Bernie was a better candidate because he had a better shot at grabbing independents and people skeptical of elitist politicians, while hardline D's would vote for him regardless.

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